Faculty Honors

Indiana University has renamed the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis to honor Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom, who founded the interdisciplinary research center in 1973. The name change was approved today by the IU Board of Trustees.
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Eden Medina, an assistant professor in the Indiana University Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing has received a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Indiana University School of Optometry emeritus professor and former dean Dr. Gerald E. Lowther has received the National Academies of Practice's James A. Boucher Award of Excellence for his "exemplary contributions to the profession of optometry and health care field" and for upholding the NAP's mission to advance science and the concept of interdisciplinary health care.
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Time magazine has named Indiana University Distinguished Professor Elinor Ostrom to the 2012 Time 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded Indiana University mathematician Nets Katz one of its 180 fellowships in its 88th annual competition for the United States and Canada. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, Katz was chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.
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Indiana University School of Informatics Dean Bobby Schnabel has been appointed to the National Science Foundation advisory committee responsible for providing strategic planning and policy formulation recommendations in the area of computer and information science and engineering.
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